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Getting Started with the EOS 1300D Getting started with the EOS 1300D Especially written for Canon EOS users A simple, modern and non technical approach to learn how to use your Canon EOS 1300D camera to take great images. Written by Nina Bailey About this book PREVIEW EDITION This book is designed for photographers for whom the EOS 1300D is their first model in the Digital EOS range, and is designed to gradually get you using and understanding all the basic settings on your camera. The companion volume Mastering your EOS 1300D follows on and looks at the more advanced features that the camera has. This book is split into two distinct sections, the first part, getting started, looks at all the key features you need to use to shoot with the camera, but sticks to the easier to use Basic modes, where little photographic understanding is needed. Even within the basic modes there are some overrides available on this model and I will look at how these can be used to correct errors the camera may make or to produce more creative images. The second part, moving on, looks at the creative modes, where you have more control over how the camera is taking the image but where a more in-depth understanding of the photographic settings is needed. I will look at the settings in depth in this section and explain what the various settings do to the images that you take. In the second part of the book I take a look at a few of the basic overrides that the camera offers and how they can be used to produce better images. I will also take a look at some of the standard settings that can be left on their defaults whilst you get to grips with the other settings that you need to understand. Throughout the book I have included a few practical assignments that will allow you to go out and put into practice what the book is explaining. I hope the book enables you to get some great images with your EOS 1300D. Written, designed and images by Nina Bailey www.ninabailey.co.uk Produced by Nina Bailey © 2016. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending prohibited. 2 About the author PREVIEW EDITION Nina started her career in the retail sector of the photographic industry and then moved to Canon UK where she had a successful nine years looking after training, exhibitions and marketing both in the UK and also within Europe. This gave Nina an unrivalled knowledge of not only the Canon EOS system but also how to develop and enhance the skills of photographers of all ability levels. Nina started her own business in 1999, concentrating on training for amateur photographers. She is also at the forefront in developing and producing the new Online EOS Training Academy. As well as developing the online training academy and direct training of photographers, Nina is a prolific professional photographer producing images not only for the EOS Training Academy but for a variety of outside Some of the test images shot on the EOS 1300D whilst producing these books on the EOS 1300D showing the great images that organisations. In 2014 Nina started producing can be achieved, these images are straight out of the camera, shot as a JPEG file and have had no postproduction done to them. her own range of ebooks to bring photography training to an ever wider audience. Nina started taking images when she was very young and is still a very keen photographer both professionally and personally. Nina loves travel, landscape and wildlife photography and still shoots commercially within the travel photography market. Nina also leads photographic trips, the latest one being to Madagascar in conjunction with Exodus tours. 3 Contents PREVIEW EDITION Part 1 - Getting started 6 PIC mode usage - Close up 48 Getting started with the 1300D 7 PIC mode usage - Sport 49 Understanding the terms used in photography 8 PIC mode usage - Food 50 What ISO means and controls 9 PIC mode usage - Night portrait 51 What shutter speeds mean and control 10 Assignment 52 What the aperture does and controls 11 Playback options 53 What the lens you use controls 12 Playback options and controls 54 Lens jargon and terminology 13 Playback options 56 Explanation of sensor size 16 Creative filter options 57 Which is the best sensor size for photography 17 Resize options 59 Basic camera layout 18 Playback options 60 Top plate 19 Slideshow options 61 Rear of camera 21 How to see the settings the image was taken at 62 Viewfinder information 23 Assignment - Use the playback options 63 Ways of viewing when shooting 24 Summary 64 The menu system 25 Part 2 - Moving on 65 About the camera’s menu system 26 Next steps - the creative modes 66 Image quality and file formats 28 Understanding the creative modes 68 Shoot 1 menu other options 30 Default settings on program mode 69 The set up menus 31 Focus lock 70 Set up menu 1/2 32 P - Program mode 71 Set up menu 2/3 33 When to use program mode 74 Basic set up for shooting 34 Program shift 75 Basic shooting operation 35 Basic focusing set up - static subjects 76 Auto plus or green square mode 36 Exposure compensation - correcting brightness 78 Flash off mode 37 AEB - Auto Exposure bracketing 79 Displays and overrides in Auto+ and flash off mode 38 Assignment - getting used to program mode 80 Assignment- Start shooting 39 Moving on from program mode 81 Creative auto mode 40 Understanding the settings we us 82 PIC modes 41 About the settings we use in photography 83 Shoot by ambience settings 43 ISO - what it sets and how to use it 84 Shoot by lighting or scene type options 45 About the high ISO settings 85 PIC mode usage - Portrait 46 Exposure settings - shutter speeds and their usage 87 PIC mode usage - Landscape 47 All about slow shutter speeds 88 4 Contents PREVIEW EDITION Special effects with slow shutter speeds 90 Exploring lenses 132 General shutter speeds 91 The part lenses play with photography 133 Keeping the camera steady 92 Focal length 134 Using high shutter speeds 93 Standard lenses 135 Apertures - what they are and how to use them 94 Wide angle lenses 136 Apertures - the range found on lenses 96 Telephoto lenses 137 What do the aperture numbers mean 97 Special technologies 138 How subject distances affects aperture usage 98 L series lenses 139 What is an exposure 102 What makes a successful image 140 Exposure settings - putting the settings together 103 What makes a successful image 141 Using the other exposure modes 105 Where are you shooting 142 Understanding when to use TV mode 106 Lighting direction 143 How to use TV mode 107 Side lighting 144 Basic focusing set up for moving subjects 108 Backlighting 145 Understanding when to use AV mode 109 When backlighting works 146 How to use AV mode 110 Assignment - Looking at light 147 Technique - how to lose the bars 111 Photographic thought process 148 Assignment - getting used to TV and AV modes 112 The thought process in photography 149 M - Manual mode 113 What are we taking 150 Manual mode and live view 115 What is the light doing to the shot 152 Mode summary 116 What is happening to the background 153 Assignment - look at the EXIF data on your images 117 Experience counts 154 Other camera settings 118 Following on from what you have learnt so far... 155 About the other settings 119 Other products and services 156 RAW versus JPEG shooting 120 File formats - RAW 121 File formats - JPEG 122 Post production and JPEG images 124 RAW vs JPEG - which is best 125 Drive settings 126 White balance - correcting colours 127 White Balance - New AWB Options 128 Picture style - reducing postproduction 129 Metering - measuring the light 131 5 PREVIEW EDITION Part 1 - Getting started Getting started with the EOS 1300D PREVIEW EDITION The EOS 1300D is a great EOS model to use to learn photography. It has a range of modes that will allow you to shoot most subjects with the settings remaining under the camera’s control. This gives you chance to become familiar with your lenses and what they do, and understanding the lighting that will give you the best images, before you need to start understanding some of the settings used within photography. Some of the fully automated modes give you some control over how the image is going to look and this is an excellent way to start to understand what photography with a digital EOS is all about, which is creativity. The ability to control how the finished image looks, something that many compacts and phone cameras give you little control over at the time of shooting. Photography has always had a steep learning curve, and in this modern digital age this has become steeper as there are now far more controls on the camera. This is why I have tried to break the book into sections that allow you to get some great results and build you confidence before tackling the areas that are by nature more technically challenging. Far too often I come across photographers who are occasions are few and far between. I originally learnt I always try and teach photography in a very modern the verge of giving up photography as they have been on a fully manual camera, but today choose not way, starting off by taking images using the basic told to shoot manually because a photographer, to shoot that way, as most of the time the camera modes and building confidence that you can get whose techniques are well out of date, has told them makes the same decisions as I would and usually a great images without needing to take control of that its the only way to shoot.
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